A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a
request with
the right
Accept
header
to the server to view the underlying object.
{
"@context": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
{
"ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#",
"atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri",
"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
],
"id": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361272967572465/replies",
"type": "Collection",
"first": {
"id": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361272967572465/replies?page=true",
"type": "CollectionPage",
"next": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361272967572465/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true",
"partOf": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361272967572465/replies",
"items": [
{
"id": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361272967572465",
"published": "2025-04-18T22:25:25Z",
"url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@HerraBRE/114361311256363725",
"attributedTo": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/followers"
],
"sensitive": false,
"atomUri": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361272967572465",
"conversation": "tag:mastodon.xyz,2025-04-18:objectId=229437689:objectType=Conversation",
"content": "<p>Different languages are good at different things.</p><p>People have mocked <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Perl\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Perl</span></a> for being a "write only" language, but I feel like the Perl community should take pride and own that slur - you don't need to constantly read and re-read and re-re-read (and edit) the Perl code, because it just keeps working.</p><p>Not so with <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Python\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Python</span></a>. Python will deprecate your shit and you will NEED to re-read that code so you can make pointless edits to keep it working.</p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>Different languages are good at different things.</p><p>People have mocked <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Perl\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Perl</span></a> for being a "write only" language, but I feel like the Perl community should take pride and own that slur - you don't need to constantly read and re-read and re-re-read (and edit) the Perl code, because it just keeps working.</p><p>Not so with <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Python\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Python</span></a>. Python will deprecate your shit and you will NEED to re-read that code so you can make pointless edits to keep it working.</p>"
},
"updated": "2025-04-18T22:25:43Z",
"attachment": [],
"tag": [
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mastodon.xyz/tags/perl",
"name": "#perl"
},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mastodon.xyz/tags/python",
"name": "#python"
}
],
"replies": {
"id": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725/replies",
"type": "Collection",
"first": {
"type": "CollectionPage",
"next": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725/replies?min_id=114361319496540420&page=true",
"partOf": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725/replies",
"items": [
"https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361319496540420"
]
}
},
"likes": {
"id": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725/likes",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 25
},
"shares": {
"id": "https://mastodon.xyz/users/HerraBRE/statuses/114361311256363725/shares",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 6
}
}
]
}
}